Wednesday, 7 December 2016

With just
a few short weeks leading up to festive holidays we will also witness
the biggest shopping weeks of the year and for many retailers this
period often accounts for the lion’s share of their annual revenue.
Stacking our homes with the latest electronic gadgets, computers, jewellery and
must-have accessories is the norm, unfortunately though it provides
common thieves with the perfect incentive to commit crime and
more often burglaries.

Please read and share
our tips with your family and friends to help ensure your home is
safe & secure over festive season.

1. One of
the most effective forms of crime preventionfor
deterring would-be criminals is toInvest in a motion
sensor flood-light or even some outdoor Christmas lights to highlight your
home’s exterior. This will hopefully make approaching your home too conspicuous
for a burglar. Highlighting the fact your possessions are security marked and
registered on Immobilise using window decals provides a further warning that
your goods are marked, traceable and not worth the risk of stealing!

2.
Secure Festive lighting. A common mistake of many
festive decorators is to feed extension cables through partially open windows,
criminals know to look for this vulnerability. When it comes to outdoor
lighting, opt for solar or battery operated lights or install outdoor
electrical outlets.

3.
Dispose of gift packaging carefully. Refuse collections
over the Christmas / New Year period are normally at different times. If you
can’t take packaging to a recycling point, make sure you only put your rubbish
out just before the collection and do your best to fold boxes so that they do
not advertise your new plasma screen TV and other contents of your home to
thieves!

4.
Protect your Identity. It is good practice never to dispose of
receipts and personal paperwork without first shredding it. Christmas is a time
when this is especially important! Be careful though not to shred any important
warranty details, make sure documents you keep are stored somewhere secure.

5. Check
doors and windows for weak spots. Recent Government
statistics show that 30% of burglaries happen through windows. Installing a few
dead-bolts and new window hinges could increase the security of your home
exponentially.

6. Keep
your curtains, drapes and window blinds closed at night, making
sure valuable items are out of sight. When going out for the evening make use
of inexpensive timers to give the illusion of occupancy.

7. Away
over Christmas – If you fail to plan you plan to fail. If
you’re going away at Christmas be sure to cancel any newspaper or milk
subscriptions. Arrange for a neighbour to park on the driveway to help create
the impression someone is home. Do not to leave descriptive telephone answering
machine messages like “we’re away skiing for the Christmas holidays” etc and
again make use of light timers.

8. Secure
garages & sheds. Make sure that garden tools or ladders that
could be used to force entry into your home are not left lying around or
accessible from an unlocked garden shed. Garages are often targets for burglars
looking for tools, bikes and gardening equipment – make sure the garage is
secure and your possessions are secured too in the case of bikes and tools.
Naturally make sure anything portable / valuable is recorded on immobilise.

9. Don’t
hide keys & use alarms if you have them.
Burglars know to look for hidden door keys so don’t hide spare keys under
rocks, in flowerpots, or above door ledges. Instead give the spare key to
family or trusted neighbour. Many houses these days have alarms, many though
are rarely set, make sure yours is on and protecting your home.

10.
Register your property for FREE on Immobilise at http://www.immobilise.com. This is
a national property database that the Police can access and search
if we recover suspected stolen property. We regularly search houses of
suspected criminals, we check second hand dealers, and visit car boot sales and
we have a device that can identify stolen property if the bar code is
registered. Don’t let them get away with your gear. Get it logged. Get it back.

Most mobile
phones have a unique identifier such as a serial number or an IMEI number
(International Mobile Equipment Identity) which can found easily by pressing
the following keys on your mobile handset: * # 0 6 # . If your gift doesn’t have
a unique identifier there are several affordable marking kits available (i.e.
Smart Water / untra-violet pens). Contact your local PCSO for further advice.

Hopefully
your property will not be targeted by burglars but we do hope some of the
advice provided helps to keep your home safe over the seasonal period and into
2017.

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

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